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An American singing heritage : songs from the British-Irish-American oral tradition as recorded in the early twentieth century
Title
An American singing heritage : songs from the British-Irish-American oral tradition as recorded in the early twentieth century / edited by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas.
ISBN
9781987207293
9781987207286
Publication
Middleton, Wisconsin : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 score (xlix, 546 pages))
Local Notes
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Notes
Transcriptions of 100 popular songs, taken from recordings made from the 1920s through the early 1940s.
Includes foreword, preface, overview, two appendices, bibliography, and indexes.
English words.
Staff notation.
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Summary
"This edition brings together representative transcriptions of folk songs and ballads in the British-Irish-American oral tradition that have enjoyed widespread familiarity throughout twentieth-century America. Within are the one hundred folk songs that most frequently occurred in a methodical survey of Roud's Folk Song Index, catalogues of commercial early country (or "hillbilly") recordings, and relevant archival collections. The editors selected sources for transcriptions in a broad range of singing styles and representing many regions of the United States. The selections attempt to avoid the biases of previous collections and provide a fresh group of examples, many heretofore unseen in print. The sources for the transcriptions are recordings of traditional musicians from the 1920s through the early 1940s drawn from (1) commercial recordings of "hillbilly" musicians, and (2) field recordings in the collection of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, now part of the Archive of Folk Culture. Each transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing essay discussing the song's history and influence, recording and performance information (whenever available), and an examination of the tune. The edition begins with a substantive essay about the history of folk song recordings and folk song scholarship, and the nature of traditional vocal music in the United States." -- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Recent researches in music online. Ongoing.
Other formats
Print version: American singing heritage. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., ©[2021]
Format
Music Scores / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 29, 2023
Series
Recent researches in Music Online,
Recent researches In American music ; volume 89
Music of the United States of America ; volume 32
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-533) and indexes.
Contents
Barbara Allen
Frog he went a-courting
The house carpenter
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
Black Jack David
The jealous lover
The lassie Mawhee
Sweet Willie
The butcher boy
Jimmie Randall (The pizen song)
Tom Sherman's Barroom & St. James' Hospital
The golden willow tree
The devil and the farmer's wife
Hangman, hangman, slack the rope
Knoxville girl
A package of love letters
My horses ain't hungry, they won't eat your hay
Pretty fair miss in the garden
Lord Lovel
Lady Marg'et
young Charlotte
Lord Bateman
Pretty Polly
three nights experience
Frankie and Johnny
Madam I've come to marry you
The three babes
The two sisters
As the dew flies over the green valley
Lord Daniel
Charming Billy
John Henry
Sleepy desert
The story of George Collins
Springfield Mountain
Ommie Wise
Jesse James
I've always been a rambler
Old Joe Clark
Little Sir Hugh
The prisoner's song
Old Dan Tucker
The blind child
Father go dig me a boat
The cuckoo she's a fine bird
The orphan girl
Beware all you handsome ladies
Lord Varnold
Sourwood Mountain
Jack Monroe
Bury me under the weeping willow
Boston Burglar
Who's going to shoe your pretty little feet
The Darby ram
Little old log cabin in the lane
Charley he's a good old man
Pretty Sally
Rye whisky
Give my love to Nellie
Texas Rangers
Wild rippling water
Charles Guiteau
John Hardy
The golden dagger
The roving gambler
The three crows
Casey Jones
The miller's will
Birmingham Jail
Red river valley
Edward
Go tell Aunt Phoebe
I courted a fair maid
Skip to my Lou
I wish I was single again
The two school boys
The dying cowboy
Old woman and the cow
Early, early in the morning
Cambric shirt
Sally Goodin'
King William was King George's son
Cripple Creek
They say it is ismple to flirt
Old ninety-seven
Foreman Monroe
Cindy
Round town gals
Little brown jug
In the state of Arkansas
Going down the road feelin' bad
With his old gray beard a-shining
Mary of the wild moor
Pretty Saro
Liza Jane
Single girl, married girl
Kitty Wells
Jimmie Randall
Wild Bill Jones
Down by the greenwood side.
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Old-time music.
Folk songs.
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